AIR FORCE LOSSES
TWO # DEATHB REPORTED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday . The following air casualty reclassifications are announced.— JUPP, Gordon Archibald (Sgt.), R.A.F., previously reported missing, now reclassified missing, believed killed. Rev. G. H. Jupp, Dunedin (father). WHITE, Rodney William, Pilot-Officer, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed to have occurred In July. Mr W. K. White, Napier (father). ments. Then, on the afternoon of February 6, came orders to move immediately! The unit was to sail that night from Singapore in a convoy. The atmosphere became electric with excitement, camp was quickly broken, and the personnel moved down to the wharf for embarkation. None too soon, as it transpired later, as the camp itself and surroundings were heavily shelled and pattern bombed the next morning. I The men were divided into two parties which took different ships. After many bombi>g attacks the parties reassembled at Batavia and subsequently were shipped to Australia and New Zealand.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21690, 28 March 1942, Page 4
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